Gerald Griffin Quotes

I'm old, not dead.

At 66 years of age, I feel about 20.

I'm not pert and perky anymore - when you're over 60, it's 'feisty.'

You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young.

I don't have this feeling that 70 is really old.

I don’t like getting old at all, but then again, who does?

One of the jokes among our family was that whenever Dad went to the movies, he insisted on getting his senior citizen's discount. It was laughable to view him as a traditional senior citizen; he was one of the most robust people I ever knew. Until, very suddenly, he wasn't.

I am 58. That is pretty old, for God's sake. I look pretty good for my age, and I am enjoying that.

I've met such amazing people in their 40s, in their 60s, 70s, and they completely bely their age on paper.

Some feel old at 45.

I used to think 63 was old.

I'm amazed. When I was 40, I thought I'd never make 50. And at 50 I thought the frosting on the cake would be 60. At 60, I was still going strong and enjoying everything.

I'm passionate about old people because I am one myself.

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

I get on the floor, and I can do things a woman a fifth my age can't do.

When I'm 100 I'll still be doing pin-ups.

We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there.

Age is not our fault.

How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I'll say that. Wonder and terror.

I don't think about my physical age.

It seems a perfectly normal thing to be 95.

You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.

I've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority.

I've finally become an old guy.

Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.